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Prior to the first fair, a two-story women's building was built at a cost of approximately $5,550. It was a spacious building, containing restrooms and exhibit rooms. The exhibit rooms were on the second floor and were to be used for exhibits of "fancy work and kindred exhibits of special interest to women." This building later served to display Arts and Crafts and still later, work by 4-H girls.
In an article in the April 3, 1918 Reporter, it was reported that the race track would be completed that same week, according to E.S. Perry, secretary of the Fair Association. He stated that fourteen men with seventh graders were busy that day putting the finishing touches to the half-mile oval.
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The same article included the fact that as soon as the women's building was complete, work would start immediately on the two ornamental entrance ways to the fair grounds. The automobile entrance would be located on Grove Street facing west, while the pedestrian entrance would be at the southeast corner of the grounds, also on Grove Street. The entrance ways were to be built in the shape of an arch with towers at each side. Ticket booths were to be built in connection.
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In the July 17, 1918 Reporter, an article stated that the new Women's Building "looms up like a gigantic southern plantation home and the view from the balcony is great." The reporter went on to say that one speed barn was done, with another to be built by the following year. Exhibition barns, built in the form of a great hollow square, were nearly complete. An eight foot fence was built, and the Fair Association held an auction selling advertising space on the fence to business men and livestock men in the county.
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